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Re: Avast et Norton,merger in progress
« Reply #15 on: July 19, 2021, 04:07:09 PM »
I'm only saying.... I wish Avast would NEVER EVER merged or partnership with Norton/Symantec.

Edit:- IF I'm not mistaken since the last CEO left Avast used to work for Norton/Symantec, before Ondrej Vlcek (Vlk) took over as Avast CEO
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Re: Avast et Norton,merger in progress
« Reply #16 on: July 19, 2021, 04:18:54 PM »
I'm only saying.... I wish Avast would NEVER EVER merged or partnership with Norton/Symantec.

Edit:- IF I'm not mistaken since the last CEO left Avast used to work for Norton/Symantec, before Ondrej Vlcek (Vlk) took over as Avast CEO
There is no Norton/Symantec

Symantec's enterprise security business and name was sold to broadcom in 2019



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Re: Avast et Norton,merger in progress
« Reply #17 on: July 19, 2021, 04:23:41 PM »
There is no Norton/Symantec

Symantec's enterprise security business and name was sold to broadcom in 2019

WOW!! I didn't know :o however, I STILL HATE Norton product and would NEVER touch it.
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Re: Avast et Norton,merger in progress
« Reply #18 on: July 19, 2021, 04:32:24 PM »
Posting a link to s subscription only service isn't going to be read by many at all.
Hello.I am not a trader and I have never quoted a commercial link.You just have to click on the link to understand.I am referring to what indicates bob3160 on speculation.I showed that here too we can think of speculation, yet the reality often exceeds the fiction .

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Re: Avast et Norton,merger in progress
« Reply #19 on: July 19, 2021, 05:51:16 PM »
Posting a link to s subscription only service isn't going to be read by many at all.
Hello.I am not a trader and I have never quoted a commercial link.
You just have to click on the link to understand.
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I never said you were.

Clicking on the link, effectively does nothing as you can't get to the article without having subscribed to the Washington Post.  Yes, they have a limited free service, but you still have to subscribe to it to be able to read the article.  I have absolutely no intent to subscribe just to read this article.
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Re: Avast et Norton,merger in progress
« Reply #20 on: July 19, 2021, 06:01:01 PM »
I don't understand .... I am European and I don't subscribe to this newspaper, but I regularly read articles: I just have to click to accept the terms and conditions and I read. Example>>>>>>:Military-grade spyware licensed by an Israeli company to governments to track terrorists and criminals was used in successful hacking attempts on 37 smartphones belonging to journalists, human rights activists, business leaders and two women close to slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, according to an investigation by The Washington Post and 16 media partners.

The phones were on a list of more than 50,000 numbers concentrated in countries known to monitor their citizens and also known to have been clients of the Israeli company NSO Group, a fast-growing and largely unregulated global leader in private spyware. industry, the investigation revealed.

The list doesn't identify who put the numbers on it or why, and it's unclear how many phones were targeted or monitored. But forensic analysis of the 37 smartphones shows that many display a close correlation between the timestamps associated with a number on the list and the initiation of surveillance, in some cases as brief as a few seconds.

Forbidden Stories, a Paris-based nonprofit journalism organization, and Amnesty International, a human rights group, gained access to the list and shared it with the news outlets, which conducted further research and analysis. Amnesty's security lab conducted the forensic analysis on the smartphones.

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Re: Avast et Norton,merger in progress
« Reply #21 on: July 19, 2021, 06:08:36 PM »
Well I live in the UK and I can't read the articles and I wouldn't subscribe or if the options was there (I didn't see it) to accept their terms and conditions, I wouldn't give then that permission.

Though if the extract you have posted is a small part of the article, then as Bob said, I too don't think it is relevant (on topic) for this topic.
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Re: Avast et Norton,merger in progress
« Reply #22 on: July 19, 2021, 10:27:21 PM »
Well I live in the UK and I can't read the articles and I wouldn't subscribe or if the options was there (I didn't see it) to accept their terms and conditions, I wouldn't give then that permission.

Though if the extract you have posted is a small part of the article, then as Bob said, I too don't think it is relevant (on topic) for this topic.
It isn't relative to this topic. It's actually spamming this topic.
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Re: Avast et Norton,merger in progress
« Reply #23 on: July 21, 2021, 01:02:21 PM »
Hello friends, I am on many American and European forums, in my life, I have never "spammed" a topic, I was only referring to what Bob 3160 said here when he defined this topic by "speculation":


« Réponse #7 le : 17 juillet 2021, 14:04:15 »
and I posted this subject which is controversial in Europe because here too one can think of speculation. Starting from this postulate, everything is speculation.... ;)


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Re: Avast et Norton,merger in progress
« Reply #24 on: July 21, 2021, 01:38:52 PM »
Hi sekgrranin,

Your example in posting #20 here is not speculative by any way, it is utterly and completely unrelated to what eventually may or may not materialize in London coming August, resulting in such a possible merger or not.

Whenever you want to you should start discussing NSO's Pegasus 'sec' with another thread, but that may even land you further to be in speculative waters. C' est le ton qui fait la musique. We can only guess at your intentions doing so.

And wasn't it Napoleon who said that history was just comprised of a bundle of merely fabulations and facts, that all parties involved could agree upon? How right l' Empereur was there, when he said that.

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Re: Avast et Norton,merger in progress
« Reply #25 on: July 21, 2021, 03:59:09 PM »
Hello friends, I am on many American and European forums, in my life, I have never "spammed" a topic, I was only referring to what Bob 3160 said here when he defined this topic by "speculation":


« Réponse #7 le : 17 juillet 2021, 14:04:15 »
and I posted this subject which is controversial in Europe because here too one can think of speculation. Starting from this postulate, everything is speculation.... ;)
All forums have their own rules. Please respect this forums rules.
I didn't define the topic as speculation but some of the responses.
Please, stick to facts.
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Re: Avast et Norton,merger in progress
« Reply #26 on: July 22, 2021, 10:00:03 AM »
Hello, I want to delete my topic but I do not see the procedure, thank you
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Re: Avast et Norton,merger in progress
« Reply #27 on: July 22, 2021, 10:21:03 AM »
Hello, I want to delete my topic but I do not see the procedure, thank you
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That option is not available to you, it's also unlikely to be deleted due to others being able to have their say.

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Re: Avast et Norton,merger in progress
« Reply #28 on: July 22, 2021, 11:50:56 AM »
Hello and thank you CraigB
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Re: Avast et Norton,merger in progress
« Reply #29 on: July 23, 2021, 06:35:47 AM »
That option is not available to you, it's also unlikely to be deleted due to others being able to have their say.

Can you lock this topic??
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